Long Time No See!!

Hey everybody!!! Sorry I haven't blogged in a few days! I've been super super busy...as always! Well lets see...what can I tell you? This past week I went to Chattanooga with my FBLA chapter at school. We went to a big leadership conference/competition and I had a blast!! I competed in the Computer Applications event and out of more than 20 people came in 9th place. Not great, but hey it was my first year!!

I've gotta say though, I'm so used to going on these over night trips with my youth group or my close friends in my youth group and being there with some of the people I was with made me realize that there is a cruel world out there that is attacking todays young people!! It's such a big difference when you're so used to going to these conferences where everyone is a Christian and you're all there to fellowship and be in God's presence together!! I was sitting in some of the leadership meetings waiting for the speaker to open and close in prayer and when they didn't I kind of had to pinch myself and realize that outside of my church bubble there is a whole other world!!! A world that is lost and desperately searching to be found! It made me realize that we're running out of time!! We're the ones who can "find" these people we call our friends!!! Ya know the friends that we know are hurting and the friends we know that are lost, but we continually walk by them day by day just hoping that they'll somehow figure it out on there own! No!! We're running out of time!!! We're the ones that can introduce to them the greatest friend they will ever have!! We're running out of time!! We're the ones that can help show them that there's another way out!! There's another place you can find true happiness!! We are running out of time!!! So I ask....how much more time are you willing to waste? There's not much left!!!

Not There Yet!

Do you ever feel like you're so close to something, but at the same time you know you're so very far away? I think this thought enters my mind at least once a day. Somehow in everything I do this feeling seems to relate to everything thats going on! For instance, a simple one would be these dumb coupon books I have to sell!! I've sold 18!!! Yay me, but I have to get to 40!! Kill me now!! Or how about a more serious one....moving out and being on my own. With senior year sneaking up on me, that day I once thought would never come, is closer than ever!! But still....I have so much to learn and so much I still have to get through before it finally happens!! I won't go into detail but there's a certain situation I've dealt with for a while now that, at times, seems like it might finally come to an end....but then of course it doesn't! With everyday that passes, I have come to the realization that I'm growing up and turning into my own person. It's hard!! It's scary!!! It makes me feel sick! I'm so ready to be on my own and make my own decisions, but at the same time I know I have a long way to go before I have that freedom!!! Man I hate being a teenager!!!

Britt

God Is Bigger!

Do you ever feel like you are a rubber band being pulled in every direction, and stretched until you feel like you're going to snap? Well if you haven't ever felt that way, then you really need to let me in on your secret!!! Lately I have felt so overwhelmed with just life that I feel like I might snap! Cheerleading is starting up again, and now I'm the big senior leader so thats even more pressure than normal. Fine Arts is only a few weeks away and I am so unprepared!! Back to cheerleading, I have to sell 40 of our coupon books(if you're reading this please buy one!!!). School is another one, (of course every teenager would say that) but seriously, I have papers due I haven't even started on, stupid algebra II that gets harder everyday, and then all the dumb high school drama that every girl deals with! Ha! Then there's just the ever popular, try and make everyone happy while placing all your feelings on the back burner! I guess I'm just tired!! I'm tired of trying to turn my crazy, always on the go, psycho life into something that I can finally be content with. I've always believed that no matter what I do, I could've done it better. I've always been very hard on and very critical of myself. It's a flaw. I'm working on it!

I know life can be crazy. I know life can be hard. And believe me, I KNOW life can be demanding. It's just a matter of how you handle it all. Do you give it all to God and trust that he will take care of everything? Or do you, like so many, over react and make mole hills into mountains? I guess I'm writing this to say that I'm just like you! I have bad days and I know what it feels like to be hurt. Just hold on!! I know your problems might seem big, but I promise GOD IS BIGGER!!!!

Britt

Ouch!!!!

So this week at school we're having cheerleading tryouts, and I am so sore!!! I've jumped and flipped and turned and yelled so much that every muscle in my whole body feels like its going to fall off!!!! This is very short but I'm going to take a hot shower and go to bed!!!! Anyways....ttyl!!

Britt